Staff Software Engineer, Firestore, Google Cloud

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• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Lead multiple engineers on technical projects across the product, collaborating effectively with partners, Product Managers (PM), customers, and other engineering leads.
• Drive the scope of functional and non-functional requirements. Ensure the team is able to execute with strong incremental deliveries. This often requires defining the priorities and balancing the product requirements with technical feasibilities.
• Build well-rounded engineers, distributing work to maximize both product objectives and personal skill development.

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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• 8 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• Experience with Java.
• Experience with databases and product ideation.
• Experience with systems infrastructure and distributed systems., * Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Experience leading with customer empathy, collaborating effectively with PM and other stakeholders to balance product outcomes and technical feasibility.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers in developing their skills and careers.
• Experience designing highly reliable systems at scale.

Firestore's mission is to unlock application innovation with simplicity, speed and confidence. We achieve this with a unique serverless, document database service, that allows developers to experience 55%+ improved productivity due to the service's broad support for friendly interfaces (including MongoDB compatibility) and AI integrations. This is complemented with a serverless, zero operations database service that is highly differentiated in the industry, featuring virtually unlimited scalability, industry-leading high availability of up to 99.999% SLA, and single-digit milliseconds read performance. Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .